Flathead Electric Cooperative Launches Community Solar Program
Posted on Aug 11, 2015 in Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Flathead Electric Cooperative Launches Community Solar Program
Flathead Electric Cooperative is launching a community Solar Utility Network in Montana and installing 365 solar panels. The project will allow customers to purchase one of the panels in the solar array, which will provide monthly power credits for 25 years. For more information, please click here.
Final EPA Carbon Rule Released; NRECA Weighs In
Posted on Aug 3, 2015 in Environmental, Legislative & Politics, Rates, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Final EPA Carbon Rule Released; NRECA Weighs In
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officially released its final version of the Clean Power Plan rules on Monday. The rules represent the first federal limits on power plant carbon dioxide emissions and require a 32 percent reduction (from 2005 levels) in carbon dioxide emissions from power plants by 2030. The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) has voiced...
Obama Administration Considers Pushing Back Clean Power Plan Deadlines
Posted on Jul 30, 2015 in Climate Change, Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Legislative & Politics, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Obama Administration Considers Pushing Back Clean Power Plan Deadlines
On Tuesday the New York Times reported that the Obama administration plans to push back Clean Power Plan deadlines. Originally the Clean Power Plan required existing plants to develop a plan to cut emissions 30 percent from 2005 levels by the year 2030. The Plan further required states to present a plan for implementing Plan rules by 2016 and begin compliance by 2020. The Obama...
Bonneville Power Administration’s Rate Increase to Hit Coops
Posted on Jul 27, 2015 in Grid & Infrastructure, Legislative & Politics, Rates, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Bonneville Power Administration’s Rate Increase to Hit Coops
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) recently announced that it will raise its wholesale power rates by 7.1 percent and its transmission rates by 4.4 percent, effective October 1. BPA, a federal agency and the largest wholesale provider in the northwestern United States, supplies wholesale power to 54 electric cooperatives. Click here for more.
Arizona Appeals Court Allows Utility to Burn Trash for Renewable Energy
Posted on Jul 24, 2015 in Environmental, Regulation & Policy, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Arizona Appeals Court Allows Utility to Burn Trash for Renewable Energy
Despite resistance from the Sierra Club, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled to allow the Mohave Electric Cooperative (“Mohave”) to burn trash for renewable energy, acknowledging the Arizona Corporation Commission’s (the “Commission”) constitutional authority to regulate such issues. Before the project was stopped by the Sierra Club, the Commission previously allowed Mohave to count 90...
Minnesota Electric Cooperative to Install Solar on Municipal Building
Posted on Jul 22, 2015 in Innovation/Efficiency, Project Development, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Minnesota Electric Cooperative to Install Solar on Municipal Building
In a deal being billed as the first of its kind, Wright-Hennepin Electric Cooperative Association (Wright-Hennepin) has reached an agreement with the city of Rockford whereby Wright-Hennepin will install solar panels on two separate sites owned by the city. Wright-Hennepin will not be responsible for any lease payments, and the city will receive a 7 percent discount on its electricity...
Great River Energy Offers Electric Vehicle Users 100% Wind Charge at No Extra Expense
Posted on Jul 20, 2015 in Environmental, Innovation/Efficiency, Rates, Renewable Energy, Technology | Comments Off on Great River Energy Offers Electric Vehicle Users 100% Wind Charge at No Extra Expense
In June Minnesota-based generation and transmission cooperative Great River Energy (GRE) and its members rolled out their new “Revolt” program, which allows electric vehicle (EV) users to charge their vehicles using 100 percent wind energy at no extra expense. Consumers pay standard rates to charge their cars, and GRE retires renewable energy credits to cover every kilowatt-hour of...
Dairyland Power Cooperative Inks New Hydro Agreement
Posted on Jun 17, 2015 in Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Dairyland Power Cooperative Inks New Hydro Agreement
Wisconsin-based Dairyland Power Cooperative has signed a power purchase agreement with Eagle Creek Renewable Energy LLC, the owner of a 10-megawatt facility located on the Mississippi River. The hydro facility was originally built in 1905 to power paper mill operations. To read more, please click here.
Kentucky Coop Building Solar Project at Fort Campbell
Posted on Jun 12, 2015 in Project Development, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Kentucky Coop Building Solar Project at Fort Campbell
Pennyrile Rural Electric Cooperative is working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Tennessee Valley Authority to develop a 5 MW solar project at Fort Campbell. The project will help the base meet a Department of Defense directive to procure 25 percent of the base’s energy from renewable sources by 2025. Read more about the project here.
Tri-State Enters Wind PPA with Iberdrola Renewables
Posted on Jun 11, 2015 in Project Development, Renewable Energy | Comments Off on Tri-State Enters Wind PPA with Iberdrola Renewables
Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri-State), a wholesale power supplier owned by cooperatives and public power districts serving Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska and Wyoming, has entered into a 25 year agreement to purchase wind power from Iberdrola Renewables. Tri-State will buy all the output from a 76 MW wind farm, the Twin Buttes II project. Click here for...
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